Born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan, Shehrezad Maher has screened her films at institutions and festivals such as Visions du Réel, RIDM, the LA Film Forum, Anthology Film Archives, UnionDocs, and Experiments in Cinema. She was awarded a 2023 Pew Artist Fellowship from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage and won the Davey Foundation grant and Islamic Scholarship Fund’s National Film Grant for her narrative short, “The Curfew.” Her feature film script, “Theory of Colors,” was selected for the 2025 Sundance Screenwriters Intensive and 2023 HamptonsFilm Screenwriters Lab and was awarded the Melissa Mathison Screenwriters Fund and CineStory’s Hagan Hicks Underrepresented Women’s Voices Scholarship. Her work has been reviewed by publications such as Sight & Sound, Afterimage, POV Magazine, and Scroll, among others. She studied visual arts at Bennington College and earned an MFA from Yale University, where she was awarded the Blair Dickinson Memorial Prize.
Email: shehrezad.maher [@] gmail.com
